The
33-14 final left reason for optimism in Oxford. A year later, the Rebels look
back on that September night in Bryant-Denny Stadium with an eye on improving
in this Saturday's return.

"Last
year I felt like we really came out there and played them, out-physicaled them
a little bit," Ole Miss safety Cody Prewitt said. "And I expect for them to
remember that game and they're going to come out and give us their best. I
think it's really going to be a throw-down."

Prewitt
had 13 tackles against the Tide a year ago.

Stopping
the running game was a priority. And, as coach Hugh Freeze pointed out Monday,
the Rebels were one of the very few teams to contain the Tide backs. Alabama
went for 125 yards on 34 attempts for an average of 3.7 — well below the season average of 5.6 a
carry.

"It
was just coming down hill and hitting them," Prewitt said. "We hit them as hard
as we could. We couldn't let them run all over us and we didn't."

Eddie
Lacy led the Tide with 82 yards on 19 attempts with T.J. Yeldon adding 38 on 10
tries.

Watching
film of Alabama's 31-6 win over Colorado State from Saturday, Prewitt noticed a
few things.

"We
know they were making mistakes that Alabama doesn't normally make," he said. "They
had players not playing that will be playing against us. We're absolutely
expecting the best Alabama team to be out there and that's what we want. We
want a lot of them playing."

Alabama
coach Nick Saban said most of the players sidelined against Colorado State
should be back for Ole Miss. Only safety Nick Perry will sit out Monday's
practice with a shoulder injury.

That
means five starters who missed the last game should be back Saturday. The list
includes wide receiver Kevin Norwood
(unknown), cornerback Deion Belue (toe), wide receiver Amari Cooper (toe),
defensive back Jarrick Williams (eye) and offensive guard Anthony Steen
(concussion).